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You should note also that ccSensors are very buggy in SMP. The sensor names are not saved on the servers and reset every time you log into the game, and the proximity sensors do not work as intended (and especially in computerCraft they don't work at all). Those are known bugs and they will be addressed when there is a first official release of openccsensors, which is the open source fork of the now defunct ccSensors mod.

One common misconception is that power generators and transformers and power storages "Send" energy out. That's not the case. The way this works is that power goes through the cables if there is something that needs it. i.e. if you put a power source and a transformer and nothing else, since the transformer is not consuming or storing energy, nothing will go through the wires. As soon as you stick a batbox or a macerator after the transformer then the macerator/batbox will "pull" energy from the transformer at the maximum packets per tick that the machine is designed to accept, then the transformer in turn will pull energy from the powersource at the rate it can handle it (1 packet per tick). So no, you do not lose power this way, but you definitely do not make the optimal use of the power output. I'll have to agree with the guys above though, the best approach is to invest into glass fiber cables and minimize power loss (remember the higher your packet size is, the less the loss you suffer), use MSFU's to store all that excess power (and also use them as "repeaters" to minimize the power loss from the cables) and use transformer upgrades on your machine. A machine with 2 transformer upgrades, 13 overclocker upgrades and 64 power upgrades is a beast. You can work full batches in just 3 seconds :)

After thorough searching I found out what the problem is. I uploaded the tekkit package through WinSCP which for some peculiar reason converts the line feeds in text files from CR to CRLF and apparently the parser of the cfg files cannot read them and decides that they don't exist, so the mods overwrite the files using the default blockID values which cause conflicts. I unzipped the tekkit package on the server and everything went smoothly when it comes to the cfg files. Unfortunately there seems to be a bug with wooden pipes now =/

Sorry for the thread title being about computerCraft.. I edited the post to reflect the bug in question

Title: [3.1.3] WirelessRedstone related server Crash Version: 3.1.2 OS: Ubuntu natty 64bit Java Version: 1.7.0_09 64bit Description of Problem: I updated tekkit to 3.1.3 from 3.1.2 by overwriting the files (deleting the old mod versions and keeping the existing world). Server will try to start but crash when it tries to load WirelessRedstone. Error Messages: Error Log: 2012-11-18 04:51:45 [FINER] Initializing mod_WirelessRedstoneCore 2012-11-18 04:51:45 [sEVERE] java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError 2012-11-18 04:51:45 [sEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.WirelessRedstoneCore.initialize(WirelessRedstoneCore.java:49) 2012-11-18 04:51:45 [sEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.mod_WirelessRedstoneCore.load(mod_WirelessRedstoneCore.java:12) 2012-11-18 04:51:45 [sEVERE] at cpw.mods.fml.common.modloader.ModLoaderModContainer.init(ModLoaderModContainer.java:351) 2012-11-18 04:51:45 [sEVERE] at cpw.mods.fml.common.Loader.modInit(Loader.java:263) 2012-11-18 04:51:45 [sEVERE] at cpw.mods.fml.common.Loader.initializeMods(Loader.java:618) 2012-11-18 04:51:45 [sEVERE] at cpw.mods.fml.server.FMLBukkitHandler.onLoadComplete(FMLBukkitHandler.java:142) 2012-11-18 04:51:45 [sEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.init(MinecraftServer.java:166) 2012-11-18 04:51:45 [sEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:428) 2012-11-18 04:51:45 [sEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:492) 2012-11-18 04:51:45 [sEVERE] Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1024 2012-11-18 04:51:45 [sEVERE] at codechicken.core.ConfigFile.readLine(ConfigFile.java:158) 2012-11-18 04:51:45 [sEVERE] at codechicken.core.ConfigFile.loadConfig(ConfigFile.java:68) 2012-11-18 04:51:45 [sEVERE] at codechicken.core.ConfigFile.<init>(ConfigFile.java:41) 2012-11-18 04:51:45 [sEVERE] at codechicken.wirelessredstone.core.SaveManager.<clinit>(SaveManager.java:33) 2012-11-18 04:51:45 [sEVERE] ... 9 more 2012-11-18 04:51:45 [sEVERE] Unexpected exception java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError at net.minecraft.server.WirelessRedstoneCore.initialize(WirelessRedstoneCore.java:49) at net.minecraft.server.mod_WirelessRedstoneCore.load(mod_WirelessRedstoneCore.java:12) at cpw.mods.fml.common.modloader.ModLoaderModContainer.init(ModLoaderModContainer.java:351) at cpw.mods.fml.common.Loader.modInit(Loader.java:263) at cpw.mods.fml.common.Loader.initializeMods(Loader.java:618) at cpw.mods.fml.server.FMLBukkitHandler.onLoadComplete(FMLBukkitHandler.java:142) at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.init(MinecraftServer.java:166) at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:428) at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:492) Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1024 at codechicken.core.ConfigFile.readLine(ConfigFile.java:158) at codechicken.core.ConfigFile.loadConfig(ConfigFile.java:68) at codechicken.core.ConfigFile.<init>(ConfigFile.java:41) at codechicken.wirelessredstone.core.SaveManager.<clinit>(SaveManager.java:33) ... 9 more 2012-11-18 04:54:53 [iNFO] Stopping server 2012-11-18 04:54:53 [sEVERE] java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Index: 0, Size: 0 2012-11-18 04:54:53 [sEVERE] at java.util.ArrayList.rangeCheck(ArrayList.java:604) 2012-11-18 04:54:53 [sEVERE] at java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:382) 2012-11-18 04:54:53 [sEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.stop(MinecraftServer.java:414) 2012-11-18 04:54:53 [sEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.MinecraftServer.run(MinecraftServer.java:487) 2012-11-18 04:54:53 [sEVERE] at net.minecraft.server.ThreadServerApplication.run(SourceFile:492) 2012-11-18 04:54:53 [iNFO] Stopping server